nim is a big huge BRAT!
seriously! -_-
i don't think her character was entirely likable, and i agree with another poster, jodie foster does look out of place in this film. and the only thing i could tolerate is gerry butler! and that's only because i'm a little biased with him.
e.e. cummings style!
You aren't serious, are you? Nim was the farthest thing from a brat. She was caring and independent and yes she did get mad when she realized Alex Rover wasn't who she thought, but she was dissapointed and scared. Anyone kid or adult could and might have gotten mad then. And that was the only thing she did that was close to bratty if you ask me.
If the guy had seen a white bronco, people would say I was in love with OJ Simpson--Lucas Scott
i think it was the whole "island only for me!" thing that first made me think that she was a brat.
isn't this adapted from a book or something? i don't know why, but maybe it's the way she was portrayed in this that made her character unlikeable to me.
she was a great character at first, and basically everything you said she was at the beginning. but i just didn't like her as the movie droned on...
e.e. cummings style!
I agree that she was a likable character, and that her independence and resourcefulness is inspiring to kids who watch this movie. She was a little bit of a brat at some parts, and stubborn, but when you think about it, what 10-year-old kid isn't like that at some point or another? Nim came across as a normal kid who loved her dad and wanted to be trusted with more responsibility.
shareITA with you and Ruby. I don't know what movie the OP was watching, but it's just another person who doesn't like movie with kids in principal roles unless they're Dakota.
That's all the things I loved about Nim. She was resourceful, smart, caring, had a love for nature, but like a kid worried for her dad and was scared during the storms. And what real kid doesn't want to be trusted with more responsibility, especially when they're up in their tween years.
She was upset that Alex wasn't the male adventure hero. Her line 'doesn't need saying' may come across as pretty bratty and stubborn, but all she had was books to read and many of those adventure books don't have female heroes and only had the damsel in distress. She didn't realize heroes come in both genders. She was also upset that yet again, another stranger has arrived on the Rusoe's private island to contaminate it after she put so much effort into getting rid of the tourists.
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I didn't think Nim was a brat
I LOVED Jodie Foster character - she was SUPPOSED to be WAY out of place, totally out of her element. I am germaphobic and could totally relate
I just didn't like the way that it ended so quickly, I was waiting to see the relationship develop between Gerard and her, but then I guess it wouldn't have been a kid's movie!
What if this is As Good As It Gets?
(horrified gasps)
Yeah! Nim was one of the brattiest protagonists ever. I watched this movie with my family and all 5 of us agreed she was extremely bratty. I felt like slapping her accross the face during the last half of the movie.
shareThank you, I totally agree! In addition to the fact that Abigail Breslin didn't even do a good job with the character, calling her a brat is an understatement. Sure, she grew up on an island and has never interacted with people other than her father. But come on, she had Jodie Foster come all the way over there, in the middle of nowhere, only to tell her to go away the minute she saw her. So many problems with this movie.
shareI've traveled with adults who are bigger brats. Please. I don't mean to be snarky here, but check yourself in the mirror next time your hugely let-down in a life or death sitauation and see how gracefully you handle it. I really don't like it when people expect characters to be perfect and polite at all times. People react badly sometimes when they are scared!! And she's a child. Alone. On an island.
I am not a Frankenstein. I'm a Fronkensteen.
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So, an adult who wants to "slap" a child?
Someone call child services; uh, it's a FILM, dummy, based on a BOOK.
I guess when you grow up you would call what she did "ACTING" since that is what they pay her to do, and obviously it worked since you had such a strong reaction to her character, who is playing to a SCRIPT.
What do they pay YOU to do? Maybe we can all come to YOUR workplace and slap YOU around a little.
Naw, you would probably like it...
She was worse than a brat. First, she tries to murder innocent tourists by flinging lizards at them (which would result in their death, lizards like that can't survive a fall from a few feet let along fifty) and setting off a volcano.
All because she wants the island to herself. Then she tells of Jodie Foster for coming to help her, at great risk to her person I might add.
The girl from "Bad seed" caused less violence and destruction. And the fact that her leg magically healed, and she was able to stop the volcano off screen just proves the fact that she is bride of Damien. And no natural child communicates directly with animals.
Burn that witch at the stake.
I don't think Nim can really be considered a brat.
Let's see: She has grown up since birth alone on the island with her dad, and he's the one he talked about staying hidden so no one else knew of their home. Therefore I can't fault her for being defensive of her island. She was brought up that way.
She never intended to kill or even harm the tourists that came to the island. She mentioned her plan was to make the island seem like a scary and despicable place so they would leave. She had no intention of aggravating the volcano. She had a fire up there and sent boulders down the slopes to make it SEEM like the volcano was erupting. She accidentally knocked one rock into the crater.
When she snapped at Alexandra she had been through alot. Her home was invaded by strangers, She had fallen down a mountain and gashed her leg, She had endured two fierce thunderstorms that threatened her house, and her dad had been lost at sea for days without calling her. After all that, Nim discovers that her favorite hero that she asked to help her is a shy, timid, awkward, obsessive compulsive, neurotic author. If I was in her shoes, I'd be pretty mad and depressed as well.
Nim was a strong, smart, caring, compassionate girl who was self-sufficient and able to take care of herself at the age of 11. Some people can't do that in their twenties. I can't consider her a brat at all.
did nobody realise that she had ONLY invited her storybook hero Alex Rover to come save her island from "invaders" (she mistook the tourists for pirates!) and NOT this clumsy woman who might get her and her dad's island (btw, it practically WAS theirs) into trouble or publicity?
she snapped partly because of her huge disappointment that her hero had turned out to be make-believe after all, and instead she had ended up divulging her island to a stranger - an author even, who might end up telling about the island.
it's not so much her island but her AND her dad's island - she was protecting it on behalf of her dad, really.